| Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing Contributor(s): Badran, Margot (Editor), Cooke, Miriam (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253217032 ISBN-13: 9780253217035 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.18" W x 9.32" (1.58 lbs) 461 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praise for the first edition: An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept. --Booklist Anyone interested in good writing should read [Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning. --Doris Lessing, The Independent This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy.--Publishers Weekly This impressive collection of writings by Arab women . . . represent[s] a powerful series of vignettes by women who were both insightful and gifted, into the lives of women who have lived 'behind the veil' over the last 100 years.--Arab Book World An expression of indigenous, intrepid feminism in the Arab world.--Ms. Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell.--Voice Literary Supplement |